Passive Investing is an investing strategy that involves putting your money into diversified, low-maintenance funds and letting it sit there for a long time. It's also known as a "buy-and-hold" investing strategy or as a "lazy" or "couch potato" strategy.

Here are some articles that cover that topic. Enjoy!

Top Three Editor's Picks

Today's guest judge, Mark Hebner, ranked the top three editor's picks. Mark T. Hebner is the founder and president of Index Funds Advisors, Inc., the author of Index Funds: The 12-Step Program for Active Investors, and runs the website ifa.com. Mark is a leading speaker, author and internet provider of investing education.

Mark is especially knowledgeable about the superiority of index mutual funds, as well as the research indexes designed by financial economists. Mark's new, condensed book can be ordered at Amazon.com.

Thanks for ranking the top three articles, Mark. Here are the Editor's Picks:

#1: What Boxing Taught Me About Personal Finance, by the blog My University Money. "Every 'tough guy' out there thinks they can fight, and every guy at the water cooler who has read the business section thinks he's Warren Buffett - so they both have stupid male egos in common," the author says.

#3: What Are Dividends? Why Should You Care? The blog Simply Investing asks a simple question - "What's a dividend?" - and explains it in commonsense, easy-to-understand language. This post explains why dividends are a great way for the truly lazy - er, I mean, passive - to kick back and earn some nice returns.

What About Asset Allocation? …

Forbes compared two model portfolios of $10,000, split as 60% stocks/40% bonds over a 25 year period. One portfolio rebalanced annually, while the other did not. What happened? The rebalanced portfolio grew to $97,000 while the portfolio that doesn't rebalance grew to $87,000. Notice the difference - $10,000 - is what you started with.

The Novel Investor shares this story - and tells us a few rules of thumb - to remind us why it's important to rebalance yearly.

How Much Can I Withdraw?

Podcaster Rob Bennet argues that there's no hard "rule-of-thumb" governing how much you can safely withdraw when you retire. Conventional wisdom says 4 percent, but Rob argues that you can withdraw between 2 to 9 percent, depending on the valuation of your portfolio. Read his argument, which he wrote as a guest post at My Personal Finance Journey.